Toto Wolff said the exit door was "unavoidable" for Mattia Binotto as he reacted to the Italian's resignation as Ferrari team principal.
Binotto was promoted to the job at the start of 2019 and had a rocky four-year tenure. The real low point was in 2020 when Ferrari finished sixth in the constructors' championship, but by the start of this year they had recovered to the point where they had a car many tipped to win the 2022 title.
Alas, for all their engineering success they were ultimately hampered in the strategy department – some power unit reliability issues did not help either. And so after a year in which his team flattered to deceive, he decided it was time to step down.
